My main hope is eventually, in modern education field, introduce education about warm-heartedness, not based on religion, but based on common experience and a common sort of sense, and then scientific finding.

We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this country have no more important obligation than to educate those who are going to replace us.

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.

When you revolutionize education, you’re taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you’re priming the pump for so many incredible things.

I was a class clown. At 12, I was definitely clowning. I was making all the jokes. But I was smart, so the teachers didn’t know what to do with me.

We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.

I’m responsible for starting a whole new school of pretension.

At the age of 6, a teacher full of ambitions, who taught in the small public school of Biran, convinced my family that I should travel to Santiago de Cuba to accompany my older sister who would enter a highly prestigious convent school. Including me was a skill of that very teacher from the little school in Biran.

There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.

Teachers are expected to be teachers, psychiatrists, nurses, sociologists, psychologists, surrogate moms or dads, as the case may be.

There are thousands of boys being wasted daily to our country through being left to become characterless, and, therefore, useless wasters, a misery to themselves and an eyesore and a danger to the nation. They could be saved if only the right surroundings or environment were given to them at the receptive time of their lives.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

Kathleen Wynne and her band of radical-left cronies think they have a handle on what constitutes human identity and also what should constitute human morality. And I think that that’s being pushed in a manner in schools that’s completely reprehensible. It’s not education, in my estimation. It’s a form of indoctrination.

Personally, I think the best motto for an educational establishment is: ‚Or Would You Rather Be a Mule?‘

Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.

For me, education has never been simply a policy issue – it’s personal. Neither of my parents and hardly anyone in the neighborhood where I grew up went to college. But thanks to a lot of hard work and plenty of financial aid, I had the opportunity to attend some of the finest universities in this country.

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Most Africans don’t get to see these wild animals at all. Once they see and learn about them, they are much more likely to become involved in protecting the environment.

My mother told me two things constantly. One was to be a lady and the other was to be independent, and the law was something most unusual for those times because for most girls growing up in the ’40s, the most important degree was not your B.A. but your M.R.S.

We are often raised as dependents then given over to teachers. It’s experience and exploration that can transform us and lead to mastery.

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in the world lack these luxuries. How do you practice without such tryout venues?

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

Working out another system to replace Newton’s laws took a long time because phenomena at the atomic level were quite strange. One had to lose one’s common sense in order to perceive what was happening at the atomic level.

We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.

Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one’s mistakes.

I never went to school more than six months in my life, but I can say this: that among my earliest recollections, I remember how, when a mere child, I used to get irritated when anybody talked to me in a way I could not understand.

We’re going to have the best-educated American people in the world.

The highest grade I’ve taught is the 11th grade, and the youngest I’ve taught is the 4th grade.

I think that all people who feel that there is injustice in the world anywhere should learn as much of it as they can bear. That is our duty.

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

Religion, any religion, no matter what sort of wonderful religion, never be universal. So now education is universal, so we have to sort of find ways and means through education system, from kindergarten up to university level, to make awareness these good things, the values, inner values.

If you’ve found some way to educate yourself about engineering, stocks, or whatever it is, good employers will have some type of exam or interview and see a sample of your work.

More people should read books. It’s the most concentrated experience you can have.

I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is.

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

I’ve always been surrounded by many great people and professors, but my family, especially my mom who was a teacher, was the person who encouraged me to study and pushed me to continue. When we’re young, we don’t understand why our parents bug us so much with school and doing homework, but it’s a blessing to have that support at home.

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

Most of us believe, or should believe, that every child can learn, given the opportunity, but try substitute teaching just once and you will see firsthand the socioeconomic issues that distract our kids from taking advantage of that opportunity.

Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.

Yes, we’ve still got more work to do. More work to do for every American still in need of a good job or a raise, paid leave or a decent retirement; for every child who needs a sturdier ladder out of poverty or a world-class education; for everyone who has not yet felt the progress of these past seven and a half years.

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.

America is the student who defies the odds to become the first in a family to go to college – the citizen who defies the cynics and goes out there and votes – the young person who comes out of the shadows to demand the right to dream. That’s what America is about.

No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.

I went by myself to Hollywood, I spoke no English, every day I had to go to school.

Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.

Experience is the teacher of all things.

Knowledge is power.

Many sophisticated, intelligent people lack wisdom and common sense.

What destroys more self-confidence than any other educational thing in America is being assigned to some remedial math when you get into some college, and then it’s not taught very well and you end up with this sense of, ‚Hey, I can’t really figure those things out.‘

When I first stopped going to high school, I was about 15, 16. It had to be, like, 2000, 2001.

My mother is not educated but keeps in touch with world events through news on TV.

We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free; but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free.

The first time you say something, it’s heard. The second time, it’s recognized, and the third time it’s learned.

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

Children need to get a high-quality education, avoid violence and the criminal-justice system, and gain jobs. But they deserve more. We want them to learn not only reading and math but fairness, caring, self-respect, family commitment, and civic duty.

For me, education was power.

Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap – let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges; let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs; let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice.